Archive for the ‘manufacturing’ Category

Project to Surface

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

surface to plane

We made it on Friday to the exhibition “Project to Surface” where our friends at Associated Fabrication produced all the physical objects, in a collaboration with Ben Krone (from SHoP architects) and 5 different artists. The pieces, mainly made out of Corian, were CNC milled and display a range of manufacturing techniques which A.F. is very comfortable with.

The exhibit closes on Tuesday, but will only open on Monday from noon to 3 pm.

See Frank’s earlier post here.

View more images of the exhibition after the jump.

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Project to Surface

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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A very interesting looking exhibition will be opening this Saturday and running through Aug. 28. Here’s the blurb:

“Art and architecture collide on Madison Avenue. Project to Surface is a collaboration between five visual artists and an architect in rendering their visual concepts into three-dimensions through the use of cutting edge architecture software, fabrication tools and techniques.”

I am pretty sure they are holding the show in the gallery space of SHoP’s new building on Madison Avenue. So a there are quite a few reasons to check this one out.

Here’s the link: project to surface

Prouve’s Maison Tropicale

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Prouve

We made it out to Long Island City today to take a look at Prouve’s “Maison Tropicale”. It is pretty awesome finally seeing the full thing for once, for all I’ve ever had a chance to see before were doors and columns (in Evan Douglis’ Prouve exhibit at Buell Hall @ Columbia about 2 years ago).

See more images below

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Mark Goulthrope’s Hyposurface on display

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

hyposurface

Mark Goulthrope’s reactive architectural wall Hyposurface will be on display at the 2007 BIO International Convention, a Nanotech convention going on in Boston until well, tomorrow…

For those of you who haven’t seen any of dECOi’s stuff, here’s a link with more info on the Hyposurface at the SIAL.

His presentation of the Mirian Gallery is also very interesting.

You have to keep in mind that this stuff is over 3 years old, but the techniques are truly great and new parametric/reactive systems are just starting to catchup to Goulthrope.

DIY 3d Printer

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

DIY 3d Printer

The fellas at EvilMadScientist have come up with a DIY 3D printer. They’re still working on it but they’ve been kind enough to give us all a sneak preview.
The printing medium is, you guessed it: granulated sugar. So finally, your mom wont have to buy anymore those little figurines to put on your birthday cakes, you’ll just have to teach her how to make STL files instead…

Check their link here

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Studiocycle

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

studiocycle

Our friends and colleagues Gabriel Bach and Andrea Flamenco (studiocycle) have come up with some cool scripted furniture. They’ve developed the Furnituremakerâ„¢ which generates one-of-a-kind furniture pieces ready for manufacturing each time.

In their words, FurnitureMakerâ„¢ favors the concepts of family and genus over the dated, nay flaccid, concept of the edition. Why, in an age where the abundance of technology makes most things possible, is it still impossible to have your environment suit your needs and desires, instead relying on big box tastemakers and others poor ideas revolving around design.

Check out their site here

Illumination I

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Illumination I

The large format sculpture Illumination I, by Michael Somoroff opened at the Rothko Chapel in the Fall’07.
SOFTlab did all the 3D modeling and the initial prototyping/milling of smaller scale models.

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